This is one of the drops we've been waiting all year for. The urban approach to the traditional american work wear influences just feels so right for the season.

For more pictures of the shoes and online purchases head over caliroots.com

Check back tomorrow for a more extensive look at these beauties here @ the C store.

In the mean time learn more about the collabo through an interview with Ransom's Matthew Langille featured @ the SneakerFreaker site. While you're at it, go over to caliroots.com to purchase issue 16 of the SneakerFreaker magazine.

The infamous A-Ron the downtown don is back with a new line of T-shirts entitled New Work. this time he has teamed up with six of his favourite artist friends to each create a t-shirt depicting some of their most recent work.

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Jack Walls is an infamous figure in the Downtown scene, life time companion & muse of the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, he has been a fixed figure in the hip art world of New York since the early 80's. For his 50th birthday, Ryan McGinley made him 500 hand drawn balloons with Jack's most classic expressions. "What did my pussy ever do to you" is one of them.

Adam McEwen is a british artist who is mostly known for his Obituary series, where he wrote obituaries for celebrities still living such as Kate Moss & Maculay Culkin. The Text Message series is McEwen's take on haiku poetry.

New York based artist Aaron Young continues the traditions of Jackson Pollock but on a much larger scale. His work often involves motorcycles, skateboards and giant amounts of paint.New Work Aaron Young Greeting Card tee € 45:- (Sek 499:-)

Canadian born Aurel Schmidt has lived and worked in New York since 2005. Her intensly detailed paintings are almost always made up of countless different things melting together into somthing different. The Party Monsters series depicts a typical N.Y. night out gone wrong.

Dan Colen is one of those artists who always gets maximum amount of love from both the art scene and hipster scene. He works with both sculptures & paintings, his work is based on things that are considered disgusting and unwanted. A lot of his work has been featured in Vice magazine, most of which he made together with his best friend & room mate, the late Dash Snow.

Ryan McGinley is a photographer who takes pseudo documentary pictures of what he imagines he and his friends actually could be doing in the wilderness. besides exhibiting his work at the Guggenheim museum, the San Fransisco MoMA & the Whitney Museum of Art in N.Y. his photographs are frequently featured in Vice Magazine.

fredag 23 oktober 2009

These fantastic peacoats from canadian brand Reigning Champ were originally released for the 2007 holiday collection, which quickly sold out at the Cali OG store. Luckily for us we managed to come across a limited number of these beauties once again. They had just been sitting in a warehouse waiting for us to collect.

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It is of course made in the super heavy, super premium cotton fleece that has made Reigning Champ the no 1 source for sweatshirts for brands like Supreme, DQM, Alife & Surrender. To top it all of the peacoat feature painted horn buttons, calf leather padded pocket openings & a very nice striped lining for the sleeves. It comes in three different colors, grey, black & navy & runs at the very formidable price of € 169:- (Sek 1699:-)

Since we only recieved a very scarce number of these, they are only available in store here @ C. for inquiries, please e-mail cstoreconcept@gmail.com or info@caliroots.se

tisdag 20 oktober 2009

There are boots & then there are Wolverine Boots. With over 125 years in the business of boot making, Wolverine is a company that surely knows their stuff.

We just recieved a couple of beautiful models from Wolverine's heritage line:

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The 1000 mile boot, which was first produced in 1914 with the finest materials at that time to last, as the name implies, for a thousand miles. This extremely well made replica is meticulously designed to exactly mimic the original, using american made, bark tanned leathers. The beautiful leather soles are enhanced to last even longer with high tech vibram heels.

Wolverine 1000 mile boot in brown € 299:- (Sek 2999:-)

Wolverine 1000 mile in rust € 299:- (Sek 2999:-)

The Burton boot takes its inspiration from classic world war one combat boots but updated to fit a modern urban enviroment & lifestyle. They feature nicely branded eyelets and rugged rubber soles with a signature W on the heel pattern

Wolverine Burton Boot € 199:- (Sek 1999:-)

Check these out in person now @ the C Store and online soon @ caliroots.com

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C Concept Store

The C Store is our premium concept conceived in the summer of 2009. Our main focus at C Store is on high end menswear and accessories with a classic & casual feel, represented in a mix of brands and designers from Europe as well as Japan & America. Our physical store is located at Regeringsgatan 77, right in the heart of Stockholm.